Yup. Today’s our 2nd wedding anniversary.

People says that life is like a roller coaster, which has it’s ups and down. You cannot imagine how true this can is, because it’s the thrill of ups and downs that makes the roller coaster ride exciting! And yes I’m enjoying this ride for the past 2 years and I guess it’s going to get more wonderful and exciting as time goes by. I’m looking for many many more years on this rollercoaster ride. I love you my dear wife!

Posted: March 17th, 2009 under Life.
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Well, I’ve always been online, just that I haven’t been updating this blog. Last blog entry ws 14th July 2008 so that mean this blog has been idling for  more than 8 months. It would have been longer if it was not for the current trial project I’m involved in.

I’ve been using dynamic web sites to create web pages for so long that I felt a sense of nostalgia when uploading static HTML files earlier on. It was a matter of FTPing into the server and I though might as well login to the cPanel and blog to see how it looks like after such long absence. So here’s the first posting after a long time, updated with the latest Wordpress upgrade using Fantastico, which I do have to admit that the new WP admin pages looks cool.

Posted: March 17th, 2009 under Blog, Websites.
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my rest is approaching, at least temporary.

but enough for me to recuperate slightly to face the next challenge ahead.

Posted: July 14th, 2008 under Uncategorized.
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celebrate.. wave your hand in the air..

act as if you care.

dang it. i need a microblogging feature on this site..

Posted: July 14th, 2008 under Uncategorized.
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at negotiation..

because.. I’ve never been in a negotiation before..

Posted: July 14th, 2008 under Uncategorized.
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I started with reading about a Slashdot posting on how does a programmer show work that he has done in a professional capacity to a prospective employer without violating the privacy of the company for which the code was written. So someone was proposing that they convert the codes into Brainfuck, and I went.. WTF? So firing up my trusted Google voila:

Brainfuck

Brainfuck is the ungodly creation of Urban Müller, whose goal was apparently to create a Turing-complete language for which he could write the smallest compiler ever, for the Amiga OS 2.0. His compiler was 240 bytes in size. reference1,

The brainfuck language is an esoteric programming language noted for its extreme minimalism. It was designed to challenge and amuse programmers, and is not suitable for practical use. Its name has been variously bowdlerized, as in brainf*ck or brainfsck. The name of the language is generally not capitalized, although it is a proper noun.

The language consists of eight commands, listed below. A brainfuck program is a sequence of these commands, possibly interspersed with other characters (which are ignored). The brainfuck language uses a simple machine model consisting, besides the program, of an array of at least 30,000 byte cells initialized to zero; a movable pointer into the array (initialized to point to the leftmost byte of the array); and two streams of bytes for input and output (most often connected to a keyboard and a monitor respectively, and using the ASCII character encoding). Wikipedia

In the Google search result, something interesting else showed up,

Malboge - reference1

very groggy.. will finish this post late

99 Bottles of Beer

Posted: July 12th, 2008 under Uncategorized.
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On his well being

Yesterday

KUALA LUMPUR: Private investigator P. Balasubramaniam could have been detained by “interested parties”, say police. NST, 7 July, 2008

Today

On the claim by Balasubramaniam’s nephew R. Sega that someone might be hiding him, Mohd Bakri declined to comment other than saying that police would not act on assumptions. NST, 8 July, 2008

On his whereabouts

Yesterday

Bakri said police were investigating whether Balasubramaniam and his family were in the country.

“There are no indications that they have left the country. We will seek help from Interpol and Aseanapol to track them if they have left our shores.

Today

Police do not dismiss the possibility that missing private investigator P. Balasubramaniam who recently made two statutory declarations relating to the Altantuya Shaariibuu murder case, is now overseas.

Federal Criminal Investigation Department director Datuk Mohd Bakri Zinin said Bukit Aman had contacted Interpol, besides monitoring Malaysia’s entry and exit points to trace Balasubramaniam.

When you see something like this,

Bakri, however, in stressing that they need to speak to him, assured him of his safety.

“If he is afraid that we will arrest him if he turns up, then he can come with his lawyer.

is as good as saying “you better come with your lawyer because we will definitely arrest you”

While we are on the subject of police and safety

Yesterday - Fearful

NST reported the police says Saiful fears for his safety

Today - Does this man sounds fearful?

KUALA LUMPUR: Mohd Saiful Bukhari Azlan lashed out yesterday against Parti Keadilan Rakyat de facto leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.

In a posting on his Friendster social networking web-site page yesterday, Saiful issued a challenge to Anwar to swear on the Quran if he was not guilty (of sodomy). NST, 8 July, 2008

The government, although touting dreams such as MSC, Vision 2020 and K-economy for many years now, and being not tech-savvy enough having out-classed by their detractors when it comes to the new media, now blames the Internet and SMS as the source of political instability in Malaysia.

Abdullah hits out at slander and lies spread in cyberspace, The Sun

PUTRAJAYA (July 7, 2008) : Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi yesterday labelled as treacherous, the deliberate attempts to create perceptions of uneasiness and distrust among the people, via the Internet and SMS.

He said these attempts, undertaken through Internet blogs, YouTube and SMS, had blemished the principles of the Rukunegara such as loyalty to King and country, upholding the Constitution, the rule of law, good behaviour and morality.

“All the slander and lies spread through the blogs and YouTube do not contribute to ease and confidence in the people,” Bernama quoted him as saying at the monthly assembly of his department staff.

Lies akin to treachery, says Pak Lah, The Star

PUTRAJAYA: The allegations being spread to create an unsettled political atmosphere lately are tantamount to treachery, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said.

He said the allegations and news championing those who broke the law through SMS, blogs and YouTube were akin to treachery.

“These stories and SMS do not have any benefit. It is a deliberately attempt to create a negative perception (of the Government).

PM: Slander an act of treason, NST

“We are developing the country and practising democracy but what is taking place, here and there, as reported by the media, spread through SMS, blogs and the Internet, will not give comfort and inspire confidence in the people.

“If all this is not stopped, we will be a nation that fails to uphold the Constitution, rule of law and good behaviour.

“Efforts to change perceptions through lies, all sorts of stories and slanderous statements are tantamount to treason. It will not bring us benefits nor will it make us successful.”

“We must overcome this. Unfortunately, there are many out there who are very interested.

“I am not saying all Malaysians believe in what is being spread but it seems that many are trapped into believing it.

“This situation is not good at all. We must realise this and stop doing bad things.

Hey, I didn’t make up this post from reading the “alternative media”, as you can see, I got this off the mainstream media. If you see such discrepancy in the papers, wouldn’t you question their credibility, and search for the truth?

Posted: July 8th, 2008 under Uncategorized.
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It all started out when my MSN Live Messenger couldn’t connect due to port problem. Is it an intentional move by IT to block all IM services in my company? Or is it a configuration problem? But experience shows that it’ll be resolved in a day or two. i don’t think they have the intention to block IM in my office, as I believe they don’t subscribe to the IM/Social networking/Websites reduces productivity mantra. To expect them to believe that IM and webmail can contribute to security breach is even more far-fetched! Now that I’ve mentioned it, perhaps IM services was blocked today due to the surge in phishing MSN spam messages that kept on hitting me today after I logged into meebo.com.

And yes, so I resorted to meebo.com to access my IM today. It’s really a good service and you can sign on to multiple IM network with it. I won’t do a review of meebo, but I just realised its a good service to reduce the clutter of windows on my desktop, and not to mention conserve my PC resources too. Since it’s web-based, I don’t have to install a client, which saves my hard disk space, and because it’s running on my internet-browser, it doesn’t take up any CPU (processing) cycle and memory aside from the one used by Firefox.

Expanding this concept to the enterprise, thats why I appreciate virtualisation/thin client like Citrix, where I run resource intensive application and work on the back-end blade servers with >2.0Ghz quad-core processors and 4Gb RAM, which would normally bring puny spec-ed laptop like mine to it’s knees. Everyone should and can do this, from the enterprise to the normal internet user like me.

Looking at my meebo screen right now, I’m pretty happy to see all my text windows opened in just one window. Next stop, I think I’ll use a web-based aggregated RSS reader to consolidate my RSS feeds instead of relying on Firefox’s Live Bookmark - that should save me from clicking over multiple tabs and consolidate all the feeds in one screen.

Posted: July 8th, 2008 under Uncategorized.
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Akismet’s really good at catching them comment spam bots. You really should consider activating them, all it takes is a Wordpress.com account, and it’ll save you lots of trouble in the future.

Posted: July 7th, 2008 under Uncategorized.
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The mobile space is heating up. Everyone’s fighting for a piece of the coveted mobile pie

The established - Symbian vs Windows Mobile.

The Open Source - Symbian vs Android vs Open Moko

The Open Source vs. Proprietatry - Symbian & Android & Open Moko vs Windows Mobile

Or we can just don’t care? Since in the connected world everything will be running on Bondi?

But then the next questions will be:

Mobile Web Services vs Local Application

which bring us

The local application - Java vs Flash vs iPhone apps

Take your pick, either way, it’s going to be an interesting ride on the mobile space from now on.

Posted: July 7th, 2008 under Uncategorized.
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there would not be yau-char-koay, and char-siew-pau; and the world would be doomed!!!

p/s: I forgot to take a photo of the yau-char-koay, that I bought earlier.

Posted: July 5th, 2008 under Uncategorized.
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Dear En. Anwar Ibrahim, Abdullah Badawi, Najib Tun Razak, and Saiful Bukhari, are you sleeping well lately?

I’m not interested to know whether you did it or not, but I am concerned about how will you face your maker and your God at the end of your journey. What will you say when you stand before the Almighty who sees all that you have done, even in the hidden and in darkness, to give an account of your life.

I know I’ll sleep well tonight. I know what awaits me if I don’t wake up tomorrow morning, and I know what to say when I face my Creator, who is also my Lord, my Saviour, my Abba Father, my comforter and my strength.

If you are truly righteous before God En. Anwar Ibrahim, Abdullah Badawi, Najib Tun Razak, and Saiful Bukhari, God be with you; but if not, then may God have mercy on you.

Posted: July 5th, 2008 under Uncategorized.
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and I quote our current PM. Well, it was the same gullible-ness of the people that he/BN exploited to vote BN back into continuation of power during the recently concluded General Election. And he would expect the same gullible-ness from us to believe him when he says,

“This government is a stable government. Please believe that.

“The administration is moving, projects are being implemented.

“Please don’t get overexcited about what is happening. There are a lot of rumours. Please don’t believe them.

“Don’t panic about what is happening,” he said after chairing the first meeting of the Northern Corridor Economic Region board of directors yesterday.

Abdullah said there were no security issues or concerns in the country.

He dismissed rumours that an exercise being conducted by the police and army was a prelude to emergency rule.

“Please don’t read anything into it. I don’t think anyone should be worried. This is an exercise and should not be regarded as something else.

“Rumours here, rumours there. It is as if rumours are lording over us. I am not so wrong to say that Malaysians are very gullible.“  NST

Posted: July 5th, 2008 under Uncategorized.
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something like a Twitter on this site. Pity the situation with Twitter at the moment, since the architecture could not cope with the increasing load.

They’ve even predicted that indentica could be the next Twitter killer. Could it? You be the judge. Visit the site and try it out here.

I’m in a such a Web2.0 mess right now. How do you consolidate all those services into one account?

Login to Blogger for your blog, Ning for your customized social networking sites in addition to the popular Facebook and Friendster which most of your friends are on. Updating your status, entry on Twitter, checking out a consolidated friends updates with Friendfeed. IM chat and VoIP with your friends on Yahoo Messenger, MSN Live Messenger, Skype, Google Talk.. photo sharing on Flickr, video sharing on Youtube..arrgh.. imagine the amount of login you require.

We need a unified platform! We need single-sign-on services!! Technologically this is feasible. But nobody wants to share their users, or revenue!

Posted: July 5th, 2008 under Uncategorized.
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Last month, the government decided to implement the provision under the Windfall Profit Levy Act 1998 and impose a 30 per cent levy on returns on assets above the nine per cent threshold of the IPPs’ audited accounts.

The source said the levy, imposed on IPPs with an installed capacity of 30 megawatts, will be calculated based on profit before interest and tax for the financial year, without taking into account any windfall profit levy paid.

Furthermore, such a levy will send a negative message to the investment community as the windfall tax seems to penalise companies which are more efficient and to ignore the basic commercial realities that they face, the source said. NST

Wow, this will hurt the honest companies who report accurate profit/loss figures. Companies who are efficient and profitable will expound their results to their shareholders, proving their capability and accountability, while the government swoops down and thrust their hand into the cookier jar taking out whatever they fancy.

Looks like this has become an increasing occurance. Perak fines telcos RM1.1m for 366 illegal towers. With the laws in their hand, towers could be legal yesterday, illegal today, money in the bank tomorrow. Funny they chose to detail the revenue earned instead of the list of non-compliance.

Speaking to reporters after the state executive councillor meeting, Nga said the move had earned the state a revenue of some RM1.1mil.

Posted: July 5th, 2008 under Uncategorized.
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What could be better than working for the Yellow Army?

Google of course!

But would they?

Would I pass the test?

Can I even get through the first round?

Will I be smart enough? Charming enough?

Do I have what it takes?

Do they think I’ll be good enough?

Would my wife let me?! It is a position in Singapore.

How would it align/achieve my dream?

Bah.. I’ve accidentally applied. If it’s God-driven.. I’ll let you all know.

update:

Day 2 - 5th July, no email reply from Google yet. Keeping my finger crossed? Nah..

Day 4 - 7th July, still no reply?!

Posted: July 3rd, 2008 under Uncategorized.
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Ning - Create your own social network for anything; founded by Marc Andreessen of former Netscape fame.

Poynt - Free instant messaging directory service

Tumblelog - blogs and scrapbook redefined

Friendfeed - get up to date with your friends update

Dammit. I want to be an Netpreneur, Internet strategist and Social Networking consultant. I want to be like Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook.com), Marc Andreessen (Netscape), Jeff Bezos (Amazon.com), Larry Page and Sergei Brin (Google).

Sorry Jerry Yang (Yahoo), Larry Ellison (Oracle), Bill Gates (Microsoft), you ain’t my role model no more. Usher in the era of Web2.0!

Posted: July 3rd, 2008 under Uncategorized.
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Symbian is celebrating its tenth birthday today (June 24) and this year already, over 20 new mobile phones have been announced on Symbian OS v9. Software from the company is used with more than 200 million phones, across 235 models.

Posted: June 25th, 2008 under Uncategorized.
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Watchout Facebook users!

A currently active phishing campaign is circulating across Facebook end users’ walls, using already compromised accounts to post the phishing links, tricking the user into thinking it’s a legitimate friend sending the message in order to redirect them to a fake login page. The campaign is taking advantage of multiple typosquatted domains which are in a fast-flux state, namely, they respond to multiple IP addresses and change them automatically every three minutes in this particular attack. ZDNet link

Goggle making money out of creating nothing. Thats called Googlenomics.

Learn how to unlock copy-protected PDF here, or download the freeware here.

Posted: June 24th, 2008 under Google, Social Networking, Software, Websites.
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All you need to bring data from a dead HDD back to life.

Courtesy of InformationWeek.

Posted: June 24th, 2008 under Computing, Software.
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